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Burch, Patricia; Steinberg, Matthew; Donovan, Joseph – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007
The supplemental educational services (SES) provision of No Child Left Behind introduces a federally mandated after-school tutoring intervention in schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress. This article examines market dynamics in relationship to the law's goals of expanding access to and improving the quality of after-school…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, Benchmarking
Wilkinson, Gary – Educational Review, 2007
As part of its agenda to promote choice, diversity and parent power in education, New Labour is aiming to develop a system of independent non-fee paying state schools. It is envisaged that control of the governing arrangements in such schools will shift from the local authority and be delegated to a range of external partners and sponsors drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, State Schools, Public Education, Privatization
Cooper, Bruce S.; Randall, E. Vance – Educational Policy, 2008
Supporters of public education fear attempts to privatize schools, while the private sector has always struggled against the monopolistic power of the public schools that educates almost 90% of all K-12 students. This trepidation has recently been intensified by the creation of a "third sector" that includes charter schools, voucher…
Descriptors: Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools, Privatization
Kachur, Jerrold L. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
This article is a compilation of the views of 16 PhD students and the author on Steven Klees' 2007 article titled, "A quarter century of neoliberal thinking in education: Misleading analyses and failed policies." The students and the author have taken Klees' article as a stimulus to try and explicate the anatomy of the decline of the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
Ayers, William; Klonsky, Michael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Arne Duncan, the brightest and most dedicated schools leader Chicago has had in memory, wants Chicago to be a Mecca where entrepreneurship can flourish. In this article, the authors contend that private management of Chicago schools is a long way from Mecca. There is no evidence or educational research whatsoever to show that privately run…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Research, Educational Improvement, Urban Schools
Southworth, Caleb – Rural Sociology, 2006
The paper examines the relationship among household agriculture, wages and household structure using panel data on urban households from 1994-2003. Experts using cross-sectional data differ on whether Russian "dachas" or garden houses are a survival strategy that households use in times of economic difficulty or a hobby of the more…
Descriptors: Poverty, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries, Gardening
Shaffer, Krista, Ed. – Hudson Institute (NJ1), 2007
A National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) report addresses the questions "What have conservative foundations done with their grant dollars to promote concepts of privatizing public education through "school choice," primarily linked to school vouchers? What were their strategies in providing resources to an array of conservative…
Descriptors: Privatization, Private Sector, School Choice, Statistical Data
DeBray-Pelot, Elizabeth H. – Teachers College Record, 2007
This article is a policy analysis that considers how the policy option of using federal programs to promote educational choice was proposed and debated in the 106th and 107th Congresses. This debate was part of the reauthorization of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) between 1999 and 2001. Over the past 20 years,…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Private Schools, Privatization, Elementary Secondary Education
Boyd, William L. – Educational Policy, 2007
The long-sustained effort of conservatives and their think tanks and media outlets to win support for school choice, market forces, and privatization schemes in education is paying off. But it is encountering steady resistance from the public education establishment and its supporting teachers' unions. Actions, reactions, strategies, and the…
Descriptors: Activism, Public Education, Privatization, School Choice
Chubb, John – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
This article presents a reply to "Edison Is the Symptom, NCLB Is the Disease" by Peter Campbell--a critique that portrayed the school as an exploitative environment, a veritable plantation subjugating poor minority children through mind-numbing, compliance-inducing drills. The author refutes the specific charges leveled against…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Minority Group Children, Accountability, Standardized Tests
When Eagles Are Allowed to Fly--A Global and Contextual Perspective on Teacher Education in Ethiopia
Dahlstrom, Lars – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2007
The present reconfiguration of education by neo-liberal forces worldwide is taken as a basis for this essay. Drawing on examples of how this reconfiguration operates on national arenas through decisive and dishonest discourses of commoditisation and privatisation, management and efficiency, education for all and student-centred education, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Change
Saltman, Kenneth J. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
In this essay, the author suggests that worldwide disasters are providing the means for business to accumulate profit. From the Asian tsunami of 2005 that allowed corporations to seize coveted shoreline properties for resort development to the multi-billion dollar no-bid reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the privatization of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Education, Privatization, Federal Legislation
Council of the Great City Schools, 2008
The Detroit Public Schools (DPS) have been battered by substantial outside forces over the last decade. The school system was taken over by the state; its elected school board was dissolved and replaced by an appointed body; its many operating systems were privatized; its citizenry were encouraged to flee to charter schools; and its resources have…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Textbooks, State Standards
Camilleri, Anthony F. – Online Submission, 2008
The presentation looks at the latest statistics on participation in Higher Education, to question whether privatisation of systems has significant effects on participation, affordability and equity of Higher Education. It further looks into questions of autonomy and governance of Higher Education systems in private and public systems, and finally…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Barriers, College Attendance
Hohman, James M.; Freeland, William L. E. – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2008
Privatization of school support services is a time-tested means for lowering educational costs. The three major services that school districts in Michigan contract out for are food, custodial and transportation. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy's survey of privatization is the longest running and most comprehensive source of school support…
Descriptors: Counties, Unions, State Legislation, Competition